My first was against Samuel Thomas, an anthropology graduate student at the University of Oxford who plays in between bouts of working on his thesis.

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First is Walter Samuel, the Roma defender who is the most important player to have forced his way into the Argentina side since the last World Cup.

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In a frantic finale to the first 45 minutes, Walter Samuel threw himself in front of Malouda as he drove into the box, while Motta rescued Inter with a goalline clearance as Anelka forced a shot beyond Cesar.

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Samuel Manetoali, the First Lady of South Africa, Mrs Sizakele Zuma and the Former President of the Republic of Cap-Vert, Mr Antonio Manuel Mascarenhas Gomes Monteiro.

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In 1777, the first patent for a circular saw was granted in England to Samuel Miller , and in 1808, a Londoner named William Newberry patented the first band saw.

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So Kahn flew a red protest flag from the stern of his racing yacht and forced his son Samuel (Shark) Kahn to forfeit a first-place position in the Mumm 30 World Championship in Toronto last September.

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This was the first full session with both Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito on the court, replacing William Rehnquist and Sandra Day O'Connor.

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It was called Samuel Adams Boston Lager, and came from a recipe first brewed in 1870 by the great-great-grandfather of management consultant turned brewing entrepreneur Jim Koch.

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Christie held his first auction in 1766, some 22 years after an English bookseller named Samuel Baker auctioned off the 457 books that had previously belonged to Sir John Stanley, founding what we know today as Sotheby's.

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With her first husband, Donald Hyde, she put to-gether the world's foremost collection of the writings of Samuel Johnson.

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